Yerevan, Armenia Newswire

The former chief of the Armenian police, Vladimir Gasparian, could be prosecuted for illegally campaigning for the ruling Republican Party ahead of parliamentary elections held in 2012, law-enforcement authorities said on Tuesday. The Investigative Committee claimed to have obtained "facts" suggesting that Gasparian pledged to help an embattled businessman avoid bankruptcy in return for his pre-election support for the HHK.
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YEREVAN, December 18 /ARKA/. Armenia would like to enhance economic cooperation with the United States, acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said today during a meeting in Yerevan with the visiting deputy head of the United States Agency for International Development for Europe and Eurasia Brock Birman, the government press office said.
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The situation around the CSTO continues to heat up as the scandal around the former secretary general of the organization turned the new appointment an unsolvable problem. Political short-sightedness and inadequacy of the Armenian leader Nikol Pashinyan led to the fact that the CSTO was left without a secretary general for an indefinite time.
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Azerbaijani foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov stated about reaching mutual understanding at the meeting with Armenian acting foreign minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan in Milan. "I consider that for the first time after a long period of time we managed to reach mutual understanding with my counterpart," Mammadyarov stated at the reception for diplomats dedicated to summing up the passing year, Interfax reports.
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YEREVAN, December 18. /ARKA/. Armenian President Armen Sargsyan signed Monday a decree, in accordance with which, the 26th building in Baghramyan Avenue in Yerevan will become his residence, Haraparak reports.
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A political earthquake hit Europe's furthest far-flung frontier last week, as Armenians voted in what has been called their nation's first free and transparent elections. But just who is the revolutionary leader that has captured the hearts of Armenia's inhabitants? In May, Armenians protested en masse against what they saw as authoritarian political manoeuvring by the country's ruling party.
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The settlement of the issue of the Russia-based Collective Security Treaty Organization secretary general should not affect the efficiency of the structure, moreover, it should further strengthen the organization, Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopirkin told a news conference in Yerevan on Tuesday. He stressed that he is not free to comment on the issue since he is not the Russian representative to the CSTO.
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YEREVAN, December 18 /ARKA/. Russia continues the work for the creation of favorable conditions for resumption of direct dialogue between the parties to Nagorno-Karabakh conflict for its peaceful resolution, Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin told a news conference today.
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Russia and Armenia are working out an agreement to ban the presence of "foreign soldiers" in Armenia, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Lavrov made the comments while calling attention to the presence of American-built infectious disease laboratories in Armenia.
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PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia has been named the country of the year by The Economist, which means that it has improved the most in the world in the past 12 months. The annual award goes not to the most influential nation, nor to the richest, nor to the one with the tastiest food.
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Underscoring its continuing close ties with Russia, Armenia has again voted against a United Nations resolution criticizing Russian actions in and around Crimea. The latest resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly Monday voices "grave concern" over the Russian military buildup in Crimea and calls on Russia to end its "temporary occupation" of the Ukrainian region.
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Former Prime Minister Karen Karapetian has ended his membership in former President Serzh Sarkisian's Republican Party of Armenia , it emerged on Tuesday. A senior HHK official, Ruben Tadevosian, said that Karapetian submitted a corresponding written notification to the party leadership several days ago.
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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov referred to Armenian biological laboratories donated by the United States when he stressed the need to prevent "foreign" military presence in Armenia, a senior Russian diplomat said on Tuesday. Lavrov told a Russian radio station on Monday that Moscow and Yerevan are close to signing an agreement that will bar third countries from deploying military personnel in Armenia.
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YEREVAN, December 18. /ARKA/. Two committees will be set up in the Armenian National Assembly for scrutinizing illegal enrichment and the March 1 bloody events, Zhamanak reports referring to its own sources.
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YEREVAN, December 18, /ARKA/. The Central Bank of Armenia is not planning a revision of the key refinancing rate in the next six months, a Central Bank Board member Artur Stepanyan told reporters on Tuesday.
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